William Bonin The Freeway Killer

William Bonin, also known as “The Freeway Killer”, is classified as a serial killer. One way to describe him as a serial killer is as a homosexual rapist. Due to Bonin’s parents both being complete alcoholics, he was raised by his grandfather. He was raped by his own father at a very young age. This was a major contribution to why he later did the same to innocent teens. Bonin was a resident of the state of California, and has raped and murdered 14 teenagers. He was sentenced to death and died of lethal injection in 1996. He committed his 1st rape crime in 1979. On August 5, 1979 sometime between evening to late night time, Bonin approached Marcus Grabs at Newport Beach. Marcus, a 17-year old German student on a backpacking tour of the United States, was sexually abused, and stabbed 77 times to death. His nude body was found the next day beside a
Initially, Wells agreed to have sex with the Bonin. He allowed Bonin to tie him up expecting to be paid for having sex. Instead, they tied Steven up, took his money, beat him, then strangled him with his T-shirt. They placed Steven's body in a cardboard box and carried it out to the van. They drove to Butt’s apartment and he told them to take the body and "drop it off somewhere." They then drove to Huntington Beach where they left Steven's nude body at the rear of a closed gas station, where it was found the next day.
On June 11, 1980, Bonin’s van was followed to Hollywood. He was observed talking to five different young men standing on street corners before 15-year-old Harold T. entered his van. The defendant parked in a vacant lot on Santa Monica Boulevard. Despite Harold's resistance, the defendant managed to have oral sex with him. Shortly thereafter, Bonin was arrested in the act of raping and sexually assaulting